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    The document provides advice to aspiring poets. It states that poetry is about feeling rather than thinking or believing. It advises that to truly express oneself as a poet means fighting to be unique rather than copying others, which is very difficult work. It warns that after 10-15 years of effort, one may only produce one line of a poem, so aspiring poets must be willing to feel, work, and fight until death to succeed as a poet. In the end, it says this difficult path is actually the most wonderful life.

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    The document provides advice to aspiring poets. It states that poetry is about feeling rather than thinking or believing. It advises that to truly express oneself as a poet means fighting to be unique rather than copying others, which is very difficult work. It warns that after 10-15 years of effort, one may only produce one line of a poem, so aspiring poets must be willing to feel, work, and fight until death to succeed as a poet. In the end, it says this difficult path is actually the most wonderful life.

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    The document provides advice to aspiring poets. It states that poetry is about feeling rather than thinking or believing. It advises that to truly express oneself as a poet means fighting to be unique rather than copying others, which is very difficult work. It warns that after 10-15 years of effort, one may only produce one line of a poem, so aspiring poets must be willing to feel, work, and fight until death to succeed as a poet. In the end, it says this difficult path is actually the most wonderful life.

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    MUHAMMAD AHSAN ASGHAR (70080503)

    CLASS: BSELL A (6)


    SUBJECT: CREATIVE NON FICTION
    TEACHER: MISS SAHAR ZEESHAN
    ADVICE
    This may sound easy. It isn’t.

    A lot of people think or believe or know they feel-but

    That’s thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is feeling- not knowing
    or believing or thinking.

    Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can
    be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re
    a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.

    To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best. Night and day, to make you
    everybody else-means to

    Fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

    As for expressing nobody-but-yourself in words, that means working just a little harder
    than anyone who isn’t a poet can possibly imagine. Why? Because nothing is quite as
    easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the
    time-and whenever we do it, we’re not poets.

    If, at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you
    find you’ve written one line of one poem. You’ll be very lucky indeed.

    And so my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy,
    like learning how to blow up the

    World-unless you’re not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die,

    Does this sound dismal? It isn’t

    It’s the most wonderful life on earth.

    Or so I feel.

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